secret stray cats

[thewildwest]

i spent new year's day reading rilke's the notebooks of malte laurids brigge. here is an excerpt i had written down on a receipt and only just rediscovered, i'm still sighing over it:

the city is full of people who are slowly sliding down to their level. most of them resist at first; but then there are these faded, aging girls who constantly let

Comments

[lipsewn]

you're spot on. that rilke excerpt is le sigh.

re auden: "two herculean eggs" and "byzantine dome of the head" are just fantastic phrases to throw around. i cant wait to use them.

[thewildwest]

haha, i thought the "byzantine dome" bit was kinda outrageous too. why is it so hard to write good poems about sex?